P.D. James Quotes

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

If Christians cannot extend grace through faithful presence within the body of believers, they will not be able to extend grace to those outside.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!